To add to this, you can easily learn to use the newest features. I cringe every time I read or hear "C++ has become so huge and complicated". It only takes 20 m

To add to this, you can easily learn to use the newest features. I cringe every time I read or hear "C++ has become so huge and complicated". It only takes 20 minutes to get proficient in the newest features such as modules and concepts. People hear "polymorphic lambdas" and imagine something so complicated, it came out of the Necronomicon. No, you simply replace your lambda parameters with auto and the compiler takes care of the types and that's it. And variadic templates aren't going to eat your soul if you can read code that has recursion.